CoolBox: a interactive genomic data explorer for Jupyter Notebook

Abstract

CoolBox is a Python package for interactive genomic data exploration based on Jupyter notebook. It provides a ggplot2-like Application Programming Interface (API) for genomic data visualization, and a Jupyter/ipywidgets based Graphical User Interface (GUI) for interactive data exploration. CoolBox is a versatile multi-omics explorer supporting most types of data formats generated by various sequencing technologies like RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ChIA-PET and Hi-C. Availability and implementation: CoolBox is purely implemented with Python, and the GUI widget in Jupyter notebook is based on the ipywidgets package. It is open-source and available under GPLv3